We are directly responsible for our own health. The choices that we make are critical to our wellbeing.<\/p>\n
The hard fact about being an alcoholic is that health insurance might not do you a lot of good. Why is this? Boozing it up causes a lot of secondary problems for the drinker. They are often medically expensive problems. For instance, chronic drinkers very often will bleed to death, because their liver is so fibrous it begins to block the blood flow to the heart. The blood has to go somewhere and that somewhere is usually into the esophagus.<\/p>\n
When an alcoholic presents in an ER with blood in their throat, an interventional radiologist is called to perform a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt insertion. It\u2019s basically a tubular metal stent inserted into the veins in the middle of the liver to allow blood flow to bypass the liver. This isn\u2019t a pretty procedure and (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are directly responsible for our own health. The choices that we make are critical to our wellbeing. The hard fact about being an alcoholic is that health insurance might not do you a lot of good. Why is this?…<\/span><\/p>\n